Andrea

“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.”
― Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

“There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame.”
― Arthur Miller, All My Sons

“A diplomat who says “yes” means “maybe", a diplomat who says “maybe" means “no”, and a diplomat who says “no” is no diplomat.”
― Talleyrand